Absence of the Hero
Subtitle: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2: 1946–1992
By: Charles Bukowski ; edited, with an introduction by David Stephen Calonne
Contributors: Calonne, David Stephen, 1953-
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: April 1, 2010
Place of publication: San Francisco, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780872865310
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The reason behind reason; title: Love, love, love; title: Cacoethes scribendi; title: The rapist's story; title: 80 airplanes don't put you in the clear; title: Manifesto; title: Peace, baby is hard sell; title: Examining my peers; title: If I could only be asleep; title: The old pro; title: Review of Ginsberg/Zukofsky; title: Bukowski on Bukowski; title: Notes of A dirty old man; title: The absence of the hero; title: Christ with barbecue sauce; title: Ah, liberation, liberty, lillies on the moon!; title: The cat in the closet; title: Sound and passion; title: I just write poetry so I can go to bed with girls; title: The house of horrors; title: Untitled essay on D.A. Levy; title: Henry Miller lives in Pacific Palisades and I live on skid row, still writing about sex; title: A foreword to these poems; title: The outsider; title: Vern's wife; title: He beats his women; title: Notes of Dirty old man : "notes of A dirty old driver of a light blue 1967 Volkswagen TRV 491"; title: The big dope reading; title: The gambler; title: The ladies man of East Hollywood; title: The bully; title: The invader; title: Playing and being the poet.